Tuesday

wa Aleykum As-Salaam Waljee 1 & 2.

I highly suspect you don't, but is there any precipitation in Kuwait? I know it is a desert, but is there ever any rain? After two years would you miss rain? Even a small shower? Would you remember well enough what a thunderstorm sounds like? I don't think I could personally live without rain, it possesses me far too deeply.

It is raining this morning in Toronto. Wet, gray, rainy day, slick city streets, the pitterpatter of raindrops humming against windows and earth. The sky is dark, it is the last day of september and after an especially wet summer, it looks to be a wet fall. The leaves have already started to turn, the DVP should soon look like an orchestra of seasonal colour and the city and its trees will soon enjoy the last gasps of 2008.

Would you miss autumn? You may never miss the cold, but will you miss the snow? Will you miss how the seasons shift both the earth and the mind? How thoughts in the winter reach corners inside you that no other season has license to explore?

How about hockey? How different will it be to hear the Leafs and step out into sunshine rather than a cool, sometimes bitter cold night with only the moon to guide your eyes?

Is wishing for a summer reprieve the if it is summer all the time? Is sunshine better understood, warmth better felt if you have felt the freeze in your bones and the loneliness of a winter night?

i wonder all the time

peacelovefreedomjustice

-s

"This has been an inquiry from within the Free City."